-Caveat Lector- "What was Neil Bush doing in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, last week? ...(Among the main backers of the event: the Saudi Binladin Construction Group and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the tycoon whose $10 million offer to help the victims of the World Trade Center attacks was rejected last fall by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.) ....But Bush's main purpose wasn't public-relations advice. NEWSWEEK has learned the presidential sibling also had another agenda: recruiting Middle East investors for an educational-software firm that, industry sources say, may benefit enormously from the new $26.5 billion education bill signed by President George W. Bush."
"'It would help Enron if you made that call' Bush was told" The Lost Children - 10,000 English Kids Sent To Australia - 2/3/02 - CBS "It's a mind-boggling story, one that sounds more like a bad movie than reality. But it happened. In the two decades after World War II, 10,000 English children were sent to Australia...Many were mistreated and abused. All were lied to. The story begins in Britain after World War II - a nation victorious but battered, broke, and burdened by overflowing children's homes. Many of the kids were put there by families too poor to raise them. What happened next is almost unfathomable in civilized countries or in modern times. The British government, in collaboration with churches and charities, developed a secret plan to clear out these children's homes; a plan which has only recently been uncovered. The kids were told that they would be adopted by loving families in Australia. And they were shipped off by the thousands. It was as simple as that. http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,40269-412,00.shtml Catholic Church to Pay Settlement to Close Abuse Cases - By William Lobdell Los Angeles Times Staff Writer - 1/30/02 - Nine former altar boys will receive an undisclosed sum and an apology from the Roman Catholic Church to settle accusations of priest sexual misconduct in an Arizona-based case that stretched as far west as Camarillo. Attorneys for both sides announced the settlement in Tucson on Tuesday, resolving the latest in a string of priest molestation cases that have badly bruised the Catholic Church's reputation. http://msnbc.com/news/694829.asp#deals DEALS Neil Bush's Saudi Business Connection What was Neil Bush doing in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, last week? Officially, the president's youngest brother was a keynote speaker at an international business forum. (Among the main backers of the event: the Saudi Binladin Construction Group and Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the tycoon whose $10 million offer to help the victims of the World Trade Center attacks was rejected last fall by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.) With an audience filled with Saudi royals, Bush talked about the role of "public opinion" in shaping U.S. Mideast policy. But Bush's main purpose wasn't public-relations advice. NEWSWEEK has learned the presidential sibling also had another agenda: recruiting Middle East investors for an educational-software firm that, industry sources say, may benefit enormously from the new $26.5 billion education bill signed by President George W. Bush. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/international/story/0,6903,644045,00.html (has graphic descriptions of torture) Innocent Muslims killed as Bush allies 'crusade' - Shootings and torture by security forces are spreading fear in the Philippines, the new flashpoint in the US war. Film-makers Jonathan Miller and Rob Lemkin report Sunday February 3, 2002 The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/bush/story/0,8224,632070,00.html 'It would help Enron if you made that call' Bush was told - Price of power - He has won the Afghan war, but President Bush's peace is threatened by the Enron scandal. Ed Vulliamy reveals how far the White House is entwined in the biggest bankruptcy in US history - The Bush files - Observer special - Sunday January 13, 2002 The Observer - As he approaches the first anniversary of his inauguration, George W Bush is under siege. He has won the war in Afghanistan, but finds himself engaged in a new battle against a scandal that is threatening to dog his administration and tarnish his reputation . Bush and his administration have been revealed as entwined in a story of corporate greed and political manipulation by an energy firm called Enron, now under double criminal investigation. The scandal - in which the life savings and retirement funds of tens of thousands of employees vanished while a number of executive directors lined their pockets - reaches so high that John Ashcroft, the Attorney-General, has had to withdraw from the investigation because he received Enron money, and lawsuits are the pipeline to force Vice-President Dick Cheney for details of his contacts with the company. http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,644518,00.html No 10 did not reveal all Enron talks - Lucy Ward and Stephen Bates Monday February 4, 2002 The Guardian - The row over the web of influence built up by the collapsed energy giant Enron deepened yesterday as it emerged that Downing Street failed to disclose a number of meetings the company held with ministers and key advisers to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. 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